trappings of, 145–47
unpleasantness of, 6
Presidential Medal of Freedom, 256
President’s Commission on the Status of Women, 227–29
President’s Council on Youth Fitness, 37
Profiles in Courage (JFK), 9, 10, 16, 27, 126, 127, 131, 281, 289
Profumo, John, 79–81, 87, 261, 284
PT 95, 216
PT 109, 3–4, 14, 18, 21, 33, 151, 216, 325, 353, 355
Purcell, Heather, 165
Quayle, Oliver, 113
Quorum Club, 79, 219, 303
Radziwill, Lee, 11, 83, 89, 120, 174–75, 201–2, 297, 328
Radziwill, Stanislaus, 201–2, 348
Randolph, A. Philip, 107, 114, 116
Raskin, Marcus, 217
Reconstruction, 180
Reed, Jim, 258, 259, 260–61, 265
Reedy, George, 139, 140
Remon, Roberto, 251
Reston, James, 137
Reuther, Walter, 114–15
Ribicoff, Abraham, xii
Rickover, Hyman, 98
Ridder, Marie, 83, 287, 320, 359
Roberts, Emory, 311–12
Rockefeller, Nelson A., 87, 167, 293
Rometsch, Ellen:
and Baker scandal, 99, 219, 265, 266–68, 284, 355
FBI file on, 79–80, 261–62, 267, 284
as JFK’s sexual partner, 79, 80, 81, 83, 264
return to Germany, 79, 81, 87
and Senate investigation, 219, 275, 355
Romney, George, 293
Roosevelt, Eleanor, 15, 197
Roosevelt, Franklin D., 129, 153, 249
and art, 257
death of, 149
and election campaigns, 157, 158, 197, 276, 295
and Great Depression, 7, 112, 197
and greatness, 128, 132, 197
and Joe Kennedy, 53
personal traits of, xi, 7
speeches of, 8, 242
and World War II, 7, 158
Roosevelt, Franklin D., Jr., 120, 230, 250, 255, 296
Roosevelt, Susan, 120
Roosevelt, Theodore, 53, 133n, 323
Rosen, Alex, 262
Rosenbloom, Carroll, 145
Rostow, Walt, 60, 177, 196, 225, 349, 359, 360
Royal Highland Black Watch, 296
Royall, Kenneth, 181, 187, 190, 227
Rusk, Dean, 23, 24, 164, 214, 320, 355
and cold war, 160, 165
and Cuba, 59, 290, 358
and Gromyko, 224, 225, 250
and JFK’s death, 348
and Lodge, 49–50
and Vietnam, 57, 90–91, 143, 162, 271, 322, 327, 360
Russia, see Soviet Union
Ryan, Mary, 42, 169
Salinger, Pierre, 15, 24, 98, 134, 220, 284
and JFK’s public image, 76, 311
and media relations, 76, 135, 185
and public statements, 38, 144, 174, 202, 233, 286, 300
resignation of, 355
and Texas tour, 323–24, 327
Samuelson, Paul, 7
Sandburg, Carl, 130
Sanford, Terry, 318
Satterfield, James, 113
Saxe, Maurice de, 72–74
Scammon, Richard, 291, 294, 323
Schlesinger, Arthur, Jr., 45, 70, 98, 153, 187, 230
books by, 129, 354, 355
and civil rights, 112, 113
and Eisenhower, 44, 133, 258
on greatness, 132–33
and JFK’s health, 33
and JFK’s speeches, 160, 202, 256, 258
and Johnson, 139
and media stories, 126, 129–30
and presidential library, 202
and Profumo scandal, 80–81, 261
and reelection, 247
resignation of, 355
and Stevenson, 88, 253, 348
and Vietnam, 50, 176, 279, 360
and White House tapes, 24, 131
Schlesinger, Arthur, Sr., 132
Schweitzer, Albert, 88, 353
Seaborg, Glenn, 30, 177
Seamans, Robert, 306, 308
Secret Service, 14–15
and assassination threats, 149, 150, 312–14
and civil rights, 182
and crowds, 211, 300, 312–13, 332, 333
and JFK’s public appearances, 241, 300, 302, 311–14
and JFK’s womanizing, 83
and Texas tour, 336, 341, 344–45
White House bugged by, 23–25
Selassie, Haile, 13, 205–6
Senter, Raymond, 99
Seven Days in May (Knebel and Bailey), 95–99
Shaw, Nanny, 296–97, 329
Shepard, Alan, 305–6
Sherwood, Robert, xi
Shriver, Sargent, 110, 151
Sidey, Hugh, 17, 35, 129, 132n, 167, 215, 217, 301, 306–7, 343
Sihanouk, Prince (Cambodia), 326
Sinatra, Frank, 70, 83
Skelton, Byron, 282–83, 327
Smathers, George, 11, 82, 139, 302, 303, 315, 316
Smiley, Nixon, 305
Smith, Jean Kennedy, 151, 300
Smith, Merriman, 168, 185, 200
Smith, Stephen, 71, 144, 291, 300
Social Security, 311
Solda, Gino, 120
Sorensen, Ted, 4, 6, 16, 17, 24, 150
and JFK’s death, 353
and JFK’s health, 33, 34, 223
and JFK’s personal traits, xi, 15
and JFK’s speeches, 130, 177, 256
and Lodge, 50
memoir of, 318, 354, 355
and reelection, 291, 292
resignation of, 355
and space program, 307
and test ban treaty, 9, 13, 30, 214
Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC), 107
South Vietnam:
and Cable 243, 90–91, 92, 105–6, 117–18, 121, 270, 271, 282
coup in, 66, 92, 105–6, 117–19, 121, 143, 162, 176–77, 188, 206, 213, 248–49, 254, 264, 270–73, 279–82
Johnson’s visit to, 59
Lodge as ambassador to, see Lodge, Henry Cabot, Jr.
and media, 158
military advisers in, 60–62, 64, 76, 99, 143, 158, 176–77, 206–9, 213, 271, 354, 358, 360
U.S. combat engineers in, 60
U.S. interests limited in, 75–76, 106, 176
see also Vietnam War
Soviet Union:
and cold war, see cold war
détente with, 30, 93–95, 101–2, 104–5, 160, 165, 183, 215, 221, 226–27, 239, 253, 303, 321, 349, 354
hotline between U.S. and, 93, 225
Jews oppressed in, 323
and JFK’s death, 349
joint space program with, 102, 103, 104–5, 160, 175, 182–83, 223, 225, 308–9
missiles in Cuba, 6, 7, 10, 18, 38, 59, 88, 91, 93, 95, 97–98, 121, 133, 134, 150, 151, 159, 197, 225, 251–52, 360
U.S. wheat sale to, 195, 221, 225, 226, 292, 328
space race, 93, 102–5, 184, 338, 341
JFK’s Canaveral visit, 305–9
joint U.S./USSR program, 102, 103, 104–5, 160, 175, 182–83, 223, 225, 308–9
manned flight, 102–3, 305–6, 307
man on the moon, 103, 104, 150, 159, 175, 223, 305–7, 310, 333
Spalding, Betty, 71, 83
Spalding, Chuck, 71, 154n, 185, 216–17
Spellman, Cardinal Francis, 19, 280
Squaw Island, 88–92
Stalin, Joseph, 129
Stanton, Frank, 135
Stennis, John, 22, 2
3
Stevens, Thaddeus, 112
Stevenson, Adlai E., 88–89, 297
and Cuba, 183, 184
Dallas trip of, 253, 254, 255, 283, 301, 325, 347
and JFK’s death, 347, 348
and test ban treaty, 160
and women, 229
Storm, Tempest, 82–83
Stoughton, Cecil, 71, 91–92, 151, 269, 286–87, 346
Styron, Rose, 286
Styron, William, 125–27, 134, 286
Sullivan, William, 207
Supreme Court, U.S., 326–27
Brown v. Board of Education, 8
Swanson, Gloria, 82
Sylvester, Arthur, 41
Symington, Stuart, 84
Tampa, campaigning in, 311–15
Tate, James, 274
tax-cut bill, 162, 174, 177–80, 184, 195, 223, 243, 301, 354, 356, 362
Taylor, George, 110, 275
Taylor, Maxwell:
and Cuba, 6
and Joint Chiefs, 57, 96, 143
and Laos, 57
and nuclear threat, 165–66
and Vietnam, 60–61, 105–6, 143, 176–77, 187, 188, 206–9, 212–13, 270, 271, 279, 282, 360
Teague, Olin, 341
Teller, Edwin, 22, 29, 77, 99, 101
test ban treaty, see cold war
Texas:
Dallas, see Dallas
and elections, 330, 335
Fort Worth, 336, 337–39
and JFK’s assassination, 348
JFK’s planned trip to, 247, 248, 292, 304, 316, 317, 321, 324, 325, 327, 328
JFK’s tour of, 329–36, 337–46
Texas School Book Depository, 344, 346
Thomas, Albert, 330, 336
Thomas, George, 150, 247, 337
Thomas, Helen, 244
Thompson, Llewellyn “Tommy,” 94, 101, 105, 224
Thurmond, Strom, 22
Time, 301
Timmes, Charles J., 311
Tito, Josip Broz, 236–37, 252, 254, 268, 328
Topping, Seymour, 55
Touré, Sékou, 252, 328
Travell, Janet, 4, 12, 34, 36–38
Tree, Marietta, 228
Tretick, Stanley, 220, 222–23, 230–31, 361
Truman, Harry S., 44, 158, 236
and armed forces integration, 181, 190
and FDR, 295
and greatness, 133
and JFK’s death, 348
speeches by, 8, 242
Turbidy, Dorothy, 236
Turner, Nat, 134, 286
Turnure, Pamela, 83, 148, 202, 325
Tynan, Kenneth, 163
Udall, Stewart, 197, 258
Ulbricht, Walter, 80
United Nations, 76, 90, 217, 253
and Cuba, 59, 283, 321
JFK’s speech at, 160, 174, 175, 182–83
and Lodge, 51, 66
membership in, 319–20
United States:
and cold war, see cold war
as melting pot, 157
military coup possible in, 94–99, 165
poverty in, 242–43, 259, 269, 293–94, 296, 311, 323, 354, 356
University of Maine, 239
USSR, see Soviet Union
Valenti, Jack, 336
Vallejo, Rene, 191–92, 283, 291, 321–22
Vanocur, Sander, 194, 196, 200
Veterans Day (1963), 288
Viet Minh guerrillas, 54, 55, 56
Vietnam, 54–67
Buddhist monks in, 63–64, 65, 66, 76, 78, 90, 106, 136–37, 161, 162
and Cable 243, 90–91, 92, 105–6, 117–18, 121, 270, 271, 282
and Diem, see Diem, Ngo Dinh; South Vietnam
division of, 56
and domino theory, 55, 56, 58, 60, 158
fact-finding missions to, 54–58, 143, 161–62, 176–77, 184, 187–88, 206–9, 212–13, 299, 360
and Geneva Accords, 56
Hue massacre in, 63–64
Kennedy speeches about, 59
Mansfield’s memo on, 75–76, 79
see also South Vietnam; Vietnam War
Vietnam War:
combat troops in, 56, 57, 60, 63, 159, 176, 311, 358, 360
costs of, 75–76
escalation of, 356, 358–60
as hopeless mess, 50–51, 66
nuclear threat in, 57
peace negotiations in, 56–57
as public relations problem, 66, 208
as unwinnable, 118, 136, 208, 241, 322–23, 359
U.S. withdrawal sought, 64, 76, 99, 143, 176–77, 207–9, 213, 217, 241, 271, 311, 323, 331, 354, 358–59
VISTA, 112–13
Voice of America, 105
Voltaire, 73
von Braun, Wernher, 305–6, 310
Wadsworth, James, 22
Walker, Edwin, 283
Wallace, George, 161, 174, 180
Wallace, Henry A., 295
Walsh, John, 4, 12
Walton, William, ix, xi, 88–89, 91, 287
Warren, Earl, 327
Washington, D.C.:
Pennsylvania Avenue, 145
segregation in, 109–10
Washington, George, 132
Wear, Priscilla, 83
Webb, James, 103, 104, 175, 307, 308
Weiner, Micky, 298
Weinstein, Lewis, 323
West, J. B., 170, 206, 244–45, 263–65, 361
Wharton, Edith, 53
While England Slept (Churchill), 130
White, Lee, 108
White, Theodore, 128
White House:
break-ins, 39
bugs in, 23–25, 65–67, 70, 101, 131–32, 210, 224, 271, 276
“Daddies Day” at, 288–89
Lincoln bedroom, 361
renovations to, 41–42, 43, 214
Rose Garden, 146, 170
Whitman, Ann, 247
Why England Slept (JFK), 130, 281
Wicker, Tom, 159, 343
Wiesner, Jerome, 7, 307
Wilkins, Roy, 107, 109, 111, 114
Williams, John, 218–19
Wilson, Richard, 87, 356
Wilson, Woodrow, 132, 133, 259, 315
Winters, Francis, 64n
World Crisis, The (Churchill), 131
World War II, 158, 216–17, 339, 353
Yarborough, Ralph, 316, 321, 330, 333, 334–35, 337–38, 341–42, 344, 345
Yevtushenko, Yevgeny, 349
Young, Brigham, 200
Yugoslavia:
Kennan in, 268
U.S. aid to, 236–37
Zaher, king of Afghanistan, 115, 142, 143, 146–47
Zakharov, Marshal, 100
Zbaril, Agent, 313
Zuckert, Eugene, 99
* In 1973, Cohen noticed the similarities between his burglary and a break-in at the office of a psychiatrist treating Daniel Ellsberg, who had leaked the Pentagon Papers to the New York Times, and wondered if Richard Nixon had ordered both.
* Cohen closed his letter by saying, “I was taken in by this psychopathic, dishonest, incompetent doctor. I am responsible for her being where she is. . . . Fortunately, you were there to take over completely. No one can ever realize the strain it is to have this venomous creature always there as a potential threat to the well being of anyone she contacts. As mentioned in the beginning of this letter, it would require a book to record just what Doctor Travell did and just what she is. I feel like a shower now. Cordially . . .”
* Mansfield confirmed O’Donnell’s recollection of this conversation in a letter to the author Francis Winters, in which he put the meeting in March
and wrote, “I can tell you with great confidence that in March 1963 the President told me he was going to leave Vietnam after he was reelected, but not before, and that he would withdraw some troops in advance.”
* She had read the book earlier that summer, and he thought it sounded so interesting that he had leafed through it. Now he had his own copy.
* After the fall of the Berlin Wall, an author conducting research for a book about the Stasi, the East German secret police, learned from former West and East German intelligence operatives that there were “strong indications” that Rometsch had been an agent for the Stasi’s foreign espionage bureau, only marrying her husband after he was posted to Washington. She had been turned over to the KGB by the Stasi because the Soviets had jurisdiction over espionage activities in North America. When asked about her, a former KGB intelligence officer who had served at the Washington embassy said enigmatically, “Yes, I know of such a woman.” (Rometsch lives in Germany and routinely refuses to be interviewed.)
* Stevenson sent a graceful note that concluded, “I know there is much joy and peace and fulfillment for you—for, as Fra Giovanni said, there is radiance and glory in the darkness, could we but see. And you, dear Jackie, can see.”
* In a 1983 article in Esquire, Styron wrote that he cruised with Kennedy in late August 1963. Thirteen years later in Vanity Fair, he put the cruise the year before, in August 1962. If the cruise occurred in 1963, it would have happened on September 1, when the Secret Service records show Kennedy motoring to Martha’s Vineyard. It is also possible that Styron cruised with Kennedy in both 1962 and 1963, explaining his confusion. In any case, Kennedy’s obsession with Kazin’s article and the verdict of history would have been the same in either year.
* The aide concluded that Time had put the two administrations “in very different lights,” and that while Eisenhower “was given every benefit of the doubt . . . [and] dealt with in only glowing terms and heroic prose,” the Kennedy administration “was nary given a chance and criticism was never spared.”
* Jackie also assumed that Schlesinger would write something. She forwarded a document to McGeorge Bundy accompanied by a memorandum saying, “I thought you might find this a valuable addition to your state papers—if you don’t—I am sure Arthur Schlesinger can use it in the trilogy I dread to think he will write about the present administration.”
* He had been guilty of this after dictating many of his most important contributions to his inaugural address to Evelyn Lincoln ten days before the inauguration. To establish his authorship of these passages, and to persuade future historians that he had written them, he copied them down from memory on a yellow legal pad a week later, and invited the reporter Hugh Sidey into his private compartment on the Caroline to witness the performance.
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